In Judith’s passage on page 100 “Yes.’ Judith said. ‘Or
destroy it. As you like….” I saw a lot of similarities between how Faulkner
wrote for As I Lay Dying for Darl’s
character. Judith seems very unhappy with how people live. It’s almost like she’s
saying she doesn’t know why we do the things we do if it doesn’t amount to
anything and we all end up dying anyways. But she doesn’t seem so cynical
throughout this passage because I believe she thinks that our lives aren’t
completely a waste, because we are able to pass things down through generation.
“And it would be at least a scratch, something, something that might make a
mark on something that was once for
the reason that it can die someday…” that like Rosa’s story, this letter that
she’s giving might be making that mark and wasn’t for nothing.
